What Are The Rhetorical Questions For Where I Lived And What I Live For

Does it matter how a person lives their life when it comes to being with others? Does their actions make them who they are? Why should a person focus on the community rather than themselves? In the text “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” by Henry D. Thoreau, he believes that a person should share life with others but that they should also focus on themselves. He believes that people should communicate with others but to also be an individual. Thoreau uses his experiences and his emotions to show his audience why it is important to focus on yourself rather than to focus on others. Thoreau also uses rhetorical questions, anaphora, and parallelism to make his audience understand why it is important to not always be part of a community and that a person should focus on making their own life great. He believes that people should seek the truths of life rather than worrying about the trivialities of life.

An example of a rhetorical question in “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” is, “Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?”(276) Thoreau was not seeking a proper answer for this question but he was seeking more of critical thinking about how a person should find a purpose to their life and not waste it. He uses his experience of him being in the woods to show his audience what he learned about himself and how others should do the same thing about themselves. Another rhetorical question that Thoreau asked, “If a man should walk through this town and see only the reality, where, think you, would the ‘Milldam’ go to?”(279) Thoreau was issuing that people should analyze what their decisions and their lives. He appeals to his audience’s emotions by making them think critically about these questions and seek their purpose of life. A person should focus on themselves rather than focusing just on your